Seventy-Five

January 22, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is justice, in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday, which falls on January 16.

Today’s poem is a number poem about someone who devotes his life to justice.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Seventy-five sustains an active life,

Engaging in the turmoil of his time.

Voices must be raised in speech and song

Embracing right, excoriating wrong,

Needed to cut through the mental grime

That veils one's vision of systemic strife.

Yet power comes to those whose will is strong.

For him the fight continues hard and long

In every vale where suffering is rife,

Vested in beliefs that make life shine

Even as he walks the picket line.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/75.html. For more poems about justice and other political topics, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/politicalpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Justice

January 16: Movements Are like Waves upon the Shore

January 17: Justice Is as Justice Does

January 18: Justice Isn’t Only in a Courtroom

January 19: Justice Is the Antidote for Vengeance

January 20: Make of Me a Hero

January 21: Even So, We Did What We Believed In

January 22: Seventy-Five